Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

BROGS

BROGS is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of brog

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use BROGS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.0% of possible answers.

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How BROGS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BROGS as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 77.9% of games, misses completely in 22.1%, and leaves about 213 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,365 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

First-turn measures

All four describe BROGS used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.47 Entropy (bits)
213 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BROGS performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#5,365 Rank among openers
Opening with BROGS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,365 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
880
4 guesses
1,196
5 guesses
213
6 guesses
8

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
28%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

BROGS can come back 91 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

528 answers
294 answers
239 answers
169 answers
112 answers
102 answers
93 answers
76 answers
58 answers
56 answers
54 answers
38 answers
36 answers
32 answers
32 answers
30 answers
23 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for BROGS; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

B3R1O1G2S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.

Strategy after playing BROGS

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to BROGS.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BROGS:

22% chance
Suggested:
LIANE
12% chance
Suggested:
STALE
10% chance
Suggested:
RATEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

22.1% →
LIANE 6.13 bits
12.3% →
STALE 5.73 bits
10.0% →
RATEL 5.23 bits
7.1% →
TONAL 5.05 bits
4.7% →
CADET 5.15 bits
4.3% →
CORER 4.45 bits
3.9% →
STRAE 4.78 bits
3.2% →
LIANE 5.20 bits
2.4% →
PALET 3.63 bits
2.3% →
CLADE 4.52 bits

Research on BROGS

Game-tree analysis and word research for BROGS, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with BROGS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,948 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,765 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).